Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
I sort of think that, just as AC isn't really a "positive claim" type of system, neither is atheism. The person can fill in the details however they want, they just aren't "allowed" to fill them in in false ways. Thus, they aren't allowed to initiate force and violent coercion, and they aren't allowed to posit an infinite array of identically unverifiable pseudo-solutions to their problems. Atheism isn't a belief system and ACism isn't a political system. Both are the logical implication of certain axioms: self-ownership for ACism and parsimony/rationalism for atheism.
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